Scientists
Our six scientists maintain robust research programs that tackle critical questions in health professions education.
Chris Watling, MD, MMEd, PhD, FRCPC (Director)
Key research questions:
- How does feedback become (or fail to become) meaningful in clinical learning?
- How does medicine's professional culture shape its educational practices?
- Where is the balance point between the individual and the social in shaping how learning unfolds?
Lorelei Lingard, PhD (Senior Scientist)
Key research questions:
- What roles does language play in effective healthcare teamwork?
- How does the acquisition of routine language patterns in workplace learning shape the attitudes and actions of novice healthcare professionals?
- How can we measure collective competence without losing sight of the individual's contribution to the team's performance?
Sayra Cristancho, PhD (Scientist)
Key research questions:
- What are the dynamics that enable action teams (e.g., trauma, SWAT, emergency response, extreme exploration, business) to adapt during high stakes situations?
- What are the conditions that hinder or promote collective adaptation in action teams across different industries?
- How does self-healing manifest in action teams across different industries?
Mark Goldszmidt, MD, MHPE, PhD, FRCPC (Scientist)
Key research questions:
- How do teaching teams’ habitual patterns of communication impact the quality of care they provide?
- How does the framing of patient medical problems impact the care they receive?
- What do physicians reason about when seeing patients?
Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, FRCPC (Scientist)
Key research questions:
- How can we address injustice through health professions education?
- How do structural inequities in the healthcare system influence the education of health professions learners?
- How does teaching and learning about sensitive topics influence the wellbeing of health professional learners and faculty?
Taryn Taylor, MD, PhD, FRCSC (Scientist)
Key research questions:
- How can simulation be used in innovative ways to better understand and improve psychological safety within healthcare teams?
- How does understanding fatigue as a social construct inform best practices in fatigue risk management?
- How do various qualitative methodologies enhance simulation-based medical education research?
